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As Ohio has become almost a must-win state for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, he has sought to blur distinctions between himself and President Barack Obama on the issue of the 2009 auto bailouts.
A new TV ad playing to erroneous fears that Jeep might move its manufacturing from Ohio to China caps a prolonged effort by Romney to recast his opposition to Obama's actions to prop up an industry that employs one in eight of Ohio's voters.
Romney has sought to reframe his criticism of Obama's handling of the 2009 rescue of General Motors and Chrysler in an effort to combat the president's usage of the bailout to court swing voters in the Buckeye State. The GOP nominee has argued it was Obama who took the companies bankrupt, and has argued that he would be a better president for beleaguered autoworkers.
Mitt Romney campaigns in the critical battleground state of Ohio as a poll shows a dead heat between the governor and President Obama. Watch the entire speech.
And a new television ad airing in Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio, the Romney campaign raises the specter of production of Jeeps moving from the U.S. to China, an assertion which Jeep's Italian parent company has said is blatantly false.
Related: Ohio governor says Romney will carry Buckeye State
The GOP candidate's new tack represents an effort to play offense on the issue of auto bailouts in the final eight days of the campaign. Obama has used Romney's opposition to the 2008-09 rescue to great effect in Ohio and other Midwestern states, where the former Massachusetts governor must perform well if he's to have any hope of being elected president.
"You saw in the debates that Barack Obama said a few things that were, as he said, whoppers," Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said at a Romney rally on Monday in Cleveland. "He turned to Mitt Romney and said, 'You wanted to take those companies through bankruptcy and not provide them any federal aid.' Let me tell you, I supported a rescue package for the autos, but what Barack Obama said was simply not true. And by the way, it was Barack Obama who took GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich tells David Gregory that the job creators deserve the credit for helping raise Ohio's economic growth.
Ohio's Republican governor, John Kasich, also suggested Sunday on "Meet the Press" that the bailout hadn't been as great as Obama might suggest.
"We are thrilled that we have a strong auto industry," he argued, "but it doesn't account for the growth of 112,000 jobs in our state."
But it was the Jeep ad in particular that marked the culmination of an effort by Romney over the past 18 months to reframe the auto debate on friendlier terms.
"Obama took GM and Chrylser into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians, who are going to build Jeeps in China," the narrator of the ad says as a clip of a disputed Bloomberg News report appears onscreen, saying Chrysler "plans to return Jeep output to China."
The original Bloomberg report became fodder for conservatives, including Romney, who said last week in Ohio that Jeep "is thinking of moving all production to China." But Jeep's ownership has said it isn't planning to move any U.S. production to China; rather, the automaker is establishing new capacity in China to build vehicles that will be sold in China.
But the ad plays to those ill-founded fears. A fair viewing of the ad might leave that impression with a voter, though the language in the ad is so narrowly tailored that it can't be directly disputed.
That could make a difference in a battleground territory like northwest Ohio, the home to a major Jeep plant that employs thousands of Toledoans and almost left the area in the late 1990s until the city stepped forward to offer hundreds of millions in tax credits.
The Obama campaign responded with a TV ad of its own, accusing the GOP nominee of being "wrong then" and "dishonest now."
"It reeks of desperation, because that's what it is," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said Monday on a conference call.
But the Jeep ad is just one component of Romney's months-long effort to better couch his opposition to the bailout.
FIRST READ: Romney's chances in Ohio tied to softening bailout stance
Romney, whose father was an auto executive before becoming governor of Michigan, penned an op-ed shortly after the 2008 election, infamously titled, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." The piece for the New York Times opposed the loans for the companies that then-outgoing President George W. Bush and some Republicans (including Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman who would become Romney's vice presidential nominee) had favored, calling instead for a managed bankruptcy for GM and Chrysler with government support for the companies' warranties and for post-bankruptcy financing offered by private lenders.
Obama eventually embarked upon a different course. His administration negotiated a managed bankruptcy with bondholders, autoworkers' unions and the companies' leadership, while occasionally injecting the companies with capital drawn from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in order to stave off a more drastic bankruptcy, and possible liquidation.
Democrats contend that no private financing was available to the auto companies during the bailout, and the government was the only actor equipped to provide the companies with a lifeline while simultaneously negotiating their bankruptcy, from which GM and Chrysler immediately emerged.
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports with the latest.
The bailout was unpopular at the time, derided by Republicans as a favor for unions, since autoworkers' pensions — in conservatives' view — were favored over dealers and other secured bondholders. Indeed, the Indiana State Police Pension Fund sued to prevent the deal from going forward, but it was rejected by the Supreme Court.
RELATED: Auto politics haunt Romney in NW Ohio
GM and Chrysler both rebounded in the months following the bailout to improve sales and profits, allowing the companies to pay off their loans from the government more quickly than expected. Their success has been heralded ever since by Democrats as a gutsy and successful example of Obama's leadership at the height of the Great Recession.
And since that time, Romney has — at alternating moments — both embraced and rejected central elements of Obama's decision making.
The Republican nominee has argued that it was his original idea, rather than Obama's, to put the auto companies through bankruptcy, though Romney's proposed process would have differed immensely. (Romney's plan wouldn't have necessarily forced GM and Chrysler into liquidation, nor was that what the governor had advocated — contrary to the president's suggestion during this month's debate.)
Romney was most pointedly forced to confront his opposition to the bailout during the Michigan and Ohio primaries in late February and early March. The Michigan native repeatedly called himself a "car guy" while campaigning near the Motor City, and appeared driving a Chrysler in a TV ad.
And Romney took to the editorial page of the Detroit News, where he accused Obama of "crony capitalism" in the bailout and said the companies would have been better off without Obama's intervention.
"Instead of doing the right thing and standing up to union bosses, Obama rewarded them," Romney wrote.
FLASHBACK: How much support would Romney have given to automakers?
As with a number of other issues since the primary, Romney, the Republican standard-bearer, has tried to soften the edges of some of his harder-charging rhetoric during the primaries.
"I’m a son of Detroit. I was born in Detroit. My dad was head of a car company. I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry. My plan to get the industry on its feet when it was in real trouble was not to start writing checks," Romney said at the third and final debate a week ago against Obama.
The GOP nominee's claim prompted the president to accuse Romney of trying to "airbrush history."
Speaking Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, former President Bill Clinton got in on the action. He said Chrysler "put out a statement sayin' it was the biggest load of bull in the world" in reference of the Jeep-to-China rumors.
"He ties himself in more knots than a Boy Scout does in a knot-tying contest," Clinton said of Romney.
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
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Another blatant lie,this man has no character and should not be elected.To many lies can you think what he will tell us as the president,Unbelievable when he must know that he will be found out to be lying
I can understand people not liking Obama, but how anyone can cast Romney as a superior alternative I have no idea. This man lies as easily as most of us breathe, and is absolutely shameless about it....until he's caught and gets all sheepish, like he did when the 47 percent video came out.
I can understand being against Obama, but there are alternatives....like not voting, or voting for someone with real priniciples and who a strong record like Gary Johnson. To actually be excited about voting FOR Romney....well, you have to think it's OK to be lied to in the manner in which he's lying about Jeep moving jobs to China. Or you really have to hate the President that much that knowingly and willfully voting for a liar doesn't phase you.
When he wins, and tells the same kinds of lies as President, and it makes you embarrassed that you voted for him.....good luck with the cognitive dissonance.
Hard to believe anyone could lie like Robmey can. The man is a scumbag - no two ways about it.
The people who are excited about voting for him must really really REALLY have a deep, abiding, bitter hatred of Barack Obama.
Romney was wrong on one point: the jobs won’t be going to China, they would be going to Italy to save FIAT. The below article says it all (written by Mark Modica). Before you liberals start jumping on the bandwagon calling Romney a liar why don’t you do your homework. FIAT is struggling badly in Europe and needs all the help they can get.
Coming hot on the heels of speculation that some Jeep production may be moved to China comes a bombshell from a Bloomberg report. Fiat is now considering moving Chrysler and Jeep production to Italy.
According to the piece, "To counter the severe slump in European sales, (Fiat CEO Sergio) Marchionne is considering building Chrysler models in Italy, including Jeeps, for export to North America. The Italian government is evaluating tax rebates on export goods to help Fiat. Marchionne may announce details of his plan as soon as Oct. 30, the people said."
So, let's be real clear here, we are talking about vehicles that will be built in Italy and exported to America. The evidence is clear that Fiat is looking at ways to move production of vehicles from the US to elsewhere, whether it be China or Italy, costing American jobs.
Here's the research "Jeff"....Jeep said the story was a "lie"
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Jeff, maybe if Romney had actually stuck to that, which might have some truth in it, he'd be in a better position when it comes to "likeability".
Instead, he makes up a lie about jobs going to China. There is no truth to that at all, yet we went right ahead and said it.
Hmmm, then again....Italians are our NATO allies, and they're mostly white, right? China, on the other hand, brings up to mind FOREIGN more readily than Italy, and their people have that different color skin and those unusual eyes.....hmmm....could it be Romney CHOSE to say "moving jobs to China" as opposed to "moving jobs to Italy" as a way of race-baiting?
Hmmmm.....
Maybe you two should do some more research.
To counter the severe slump in European sales, Marchionne is considering building Chrysler models in Italy, including Jeeps, for export to North America. The Italian government is evaluating tax rebates on export goods to help Fiat. Marchionne may announce details of his plan as soon as Oct. 30, the people said.
“This makes sense on multiple levels” as it will boost plant utilization and would cap “Chrysler’s own potential, limiting the likely cost to Fiat shareholders of buying out the Chrysler minorities,” Stuart Pearson, an analyst at Morgan Stanley in London, said in a note to investors today. “However we see no quick answers, and fear debt could surprise negatively first,” said Pearson, who rates the stock underweight with a target price at 3.90 euros.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-28/marchionne-seen-missing-fiat-sales-target-by-19-billion.html
FYI, please don't confuse the pseudo-Italians of the "Jersey Shore" with actual Italians. Italians come in all colors, shapes and sizes. For example, I am blonde and fair skinned. Relatives include red heads, blondes, blue eyes, green eyes, brown eyes, black hair, olive skin, etc.
President Barack Obama has confidently told the successful that they wouldn't be where they are without the help of others. "You didn't get there on your own," says the president.
Book Review: "The Communist" - Does Frank Marshall Davis Have An Ideological Godson In President Obama? Mark HendricksonContributor
Well, Obama should know. As a young man in the 1970s, he repeatedly sought the counsel of a Hawaiian man named Frank Marshall Davis, whom he first met in 1970 through his maternal grandfather. Obama's grandfather had sought out Davis as a mentor for his grandson, a black-male role model/father figure that the young Obama was lacking. Obama responded in kind.
"I was intrigued by old Frank," reports Obama in Dreams from My Father, "with his books and whiskey breath and the hint of hard-earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes." Davis offered Obama advice at several life-changing levels: on race, on college, on women, on his mind, on his attitudes, on life, on the very notion of what Davis himself called "fundamental change." In his memoirs, Obama features 22 direct references to "Frank" by name. Davis became a part of Obama's life and mind, by Obama's own extended recounting, from Hawaii—the site of multiple visits and late evenings together—to Los Angeles to Chicago to Germany to Africa, from adolescence to college to community organizing. When Obama arrived in Chicago to find himself professionally and politically—just as Frank Marshall Davis himself had once done in the 1930s—Obama literally visualized Davis, pictured him. He thought first of "Frank."
Unfortunately, Obama left out some salient facts about Frank Marshall Davis. Among them, Davis joined Communist Party USA in Chicago during World War II (his Party number was 47544). He became extremely active in Party circles and even wrote for and was the founding editor-in-chief of the Communist Party publication there, the Chicago Star. He left Chicago in 1948 for Hawaii, where he would write for the Party publication there, the Honolulu Record. Those writings reveal a man fully loyal to the Soviet Union and the Communist Party line, and often bare an uncanny resemblance to Obama's own rhetoric, whether Davis was bashing Wall Street, big oil, big banks, corporate executives and their "excess profits" and "greed" and their "fat contracts," the wealthy and "millionaires," GOP tax cuts that "spare the rich," and on and on.
Particularly interesting, however, and worthy of the attention to readers of this publication, were Frank Marshall Davis's writings incessantly demonizing General Motors.
In the Chicago Star, Davis and his comrades eviscerated GM every chance they had. The Star, for instance, mocked the claims of Winston Churchill—incidentally, Davis, like Obama, did not like Churchill—that an Iron Curtain was being erected by Stalin in Europe; to the contrary, the Star maintained that the only "Iron Curtains" were those being erected by the likes of General Motors. The problem was not Stalin's Iron Curtain, scoffed Frank Marshall Davis in his usual incendiary language, but "G.M.'s iron curtain," being raised by "General Motors' Hitlers." The Chicago Star carried headlines claiming that GM itself was a "branch of U.S. imperialism."
Frank Marshall Davis saw GM as a sinister force, and was unrelenting in his anti-GM crusade for years to come. He was particularly indignant at GM's profits, which he felt were too high. According to Davis, GM, like America as a whole, was good at manufacturing one thing: "we have manufactured a national horror of socialism."
In a January 26, 1950 column, titled, "Free Enterprise or Socialism," Davis framed an America on the verge of another Great Depression, with a "virtual dictatorship of Big Business" being the culprit. Zeroing in on the "tentacles of Big Business," Davis cut loose on GM:
Alfred Sloan of General Motors announced that his gigantic company made a profit last year of $600,000,000, more than any other corporation in history. Over the years, General Motors has swallowed up or knocked out car manufacturer after car manufacturer so that today less than a handful of competitors remains. Free enterprise, eh?
Obviously, a business that can show a profit in one year of $600,000,000 is in a position to control government. When we remember that the directors and major stockholders of one industry also shape the policies of banks and other huge corporations, it is easy to see that the tentacles of Big Business control just about everything they think they need to insure continued profits…. For many years now we have been living under the virtual dictatorship of Big Business which all but drove us to ruin in 1929….
Government policy is fixed in Wall Street and transmitted through the corporation executives….
Davis was irate that "firms [such] as General Motors could make $600,000,000 profit while unemployment skyrocketed."
Davis finished this particular shot at GM with a revealing statement, indicative of his far-left view of economic success:
As for free enterprise, it doesn't live here anymore. At the same time we have manufactured a national horror of socialism. Meanwhile, the dictatorship of the monopolies is driving us down the road to ruin.
And so, with still rising unemployment and a mounting depression, the time draws nearer when we will have to decide to oust the monopolies and restore a competing system of free enterprise, or let the government own and operate our major industries.
Frank Marshall Davis did not bother explaining which option he preferred. Given that he was obviously a man of the far left, a communist, a Party member even, he no doubt favored the option of letting the government own and operate our major industries.
Two weeks later, in a February 9, 1950 piece, Davis again went after GM, asking rhetorically: "With no brink-of-war economy, how could General Motors make $600,000,000 in one year in the face of rising unemployment?"
He would continue to call out these alleged obscene profits by the automaker. He plainly did not like General Motors.
In short, it would be easy to picture Frank Marshall Davis, if he were president of the United States, nationalizing GM. Clearly, Davis would have favored some significant government action to manage and control General Motors. I'm certain he would have been pleased with Barack Obama's actions with GM.
Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and author of the new book, The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor.
Funny really...
The teapublicans are having a very hard time even ATTEMPTING to back willard on this delusional fallacy.
Deep down,. they KNOW he's a lying weasel...
They just don't care...
It's now 6:00pm on the East Coast.
Only 174 hours left in the 2012 presidential campaign.
Time is running out for Romney and the numbers are moving away from him in all eleven of Real Clear Politics' toss-up states.
Even in OH, where Obama's averaged lead dipped from 2.1% to 1.9% this morning, FiveThirtyEight increased the President's chances of winning the Buckeye State from 73.5% to 74.9%. Even this good news for Romney turns out to be not so good, it seems.
The GOP/RNC "Crazy Conservative Clown Show" spews on. The GOP/RNC "Pathological Liar and Chief" has been nothing but lies since his early days at Bain Capital. This is a "Vulture Speculator" has no clue of what reality is, and he is very unethical on every issue. That is fact!
Back when I was young, Danny Elfman wrote a song called "Grey Matter"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjOp69fkyn4
Romney to Ryan, "DOH"
The Bishop doesn't need an etch-a-sketch for this wrong-headed position, he needs a time machine to remove his statements that put him on the wrong side of the bailout that saved the auto industry. Magic underpants will only take you so far.
I wish I had magic underpants that erased the memories of the RWNJ's.
Has Romney no sense of decency? To spread out and out lies like these tells us way too much about his character and confirms how ill-suited he is to become the Presdeint of the United States. I'm appalled that the republicans can do no better than him.
and yet, nearly half the U.S. poulace is willing to believe him, even when his lies are made blatantly clear.
Absolutely, don't the so called Republicans just make you sick. You can give them facts and show them where to go to check those facts and they still will try to read between the lines. When you actually hear from your own ears what Romney is saying and then the truth is revealed, the Republicans will not accept, apologize or even consider that Romney is lying through his teeth. What religion do you know, allows that.
All The Romneys Are Suffering From The "RUNS"!
1) Grandpa George Ran From The USA To Mexico - A Multi - Wife Issues? To Serve His Ends!
Grandpa George Again Suffering From The Runs - Due To Rebel Activities In His New Country ( Mexico). So He
Tucked His Tail In And Ran From Them Back To The USA! To Save Is Tailpipe!
In Both His Lands He Ran To And From He Never Served Either Country! Boy - What A Case Of "Runs" Here!
2) Now As For MItten - His Son - He Was A Great Runner As Well!
But He Chose to Run From The Good Old USA Because Of That Little Item Called The Vietnam War And The Draft!
So He Tucked His Tail In And Ran For The Beaches Of Frances -- Not Bad! No War For Mitten -- He Was Suffering
From The "Runs"! ( Romney The - Draft Dodger -- I Bet All The Vietnam Vets Really Love This Guy! )
From All His Running On The Beaches Of France I Guess He Was To Tired To Serve His Country!
3) Now For All Of Mitt's Little Mittens -- They Had The Opportunities To Serve Their Country -- You Know The
Iraq / Afghan Wars That Their Republican Buddy Bush Provided For Them -- But As Luck Has It -- Bingo -- No Draft
To Run From For Now -- But Even With Such Great Opportunities That Bush Gave Them They Turned Their Backs
And "Ran" The Other Way -- Away From Serving Their Country -- And "Ran" On To Serving Themselves --
Can You Just Imagine If There Was A Draft -- All That Packing And The Massive Case Of "Runs" They Would Have
Had To Endured -- WOW!
4) The Romney Family Motto: "We Suffer From The Runs" In Bright YELLOW!
5) And Mitt Wants You To Know -- That He Is Suffering From The "Runs" The "Runs" From His Mouth!
Thanks Mitt -- But We Already Know!
Republicans this is a statement from Romney on FEMA. Now I no that you are wanting so much to twist this around and read between the lines and make yourself believe that is not the Romney you are voting for, right.
Here’s what the Republican candidate Romney had to say when asked whether FEMA should be shut down:
"Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget, what we should cut, we should ask the opposite question, what should we keep?"
The left is more concerned about lies about Chrysler yet doesn't give a hoot about the lies about Benghazi? Amazing, truely amazing.
There are no "lies about Benghazi", only your twisted opinion of the facts.
Oh really. So your calling the father of Tyron Woods a lier.
If we do not have a viable economic plan for the next 4 years our entire economy is going to suffer, including the auto industry.
I read the President's economic plan for the next four years. The Plan is devoid of detail to include budget. It appears to be primarily a wish list. It seems that the President wants the federal government to spend a lot of money that it does not have to train math and science teacher's to teach vocational classes at the JC level for jobs that do not really exist in this country. Foreign manufacturers are paying their workers roughly a tenth of the minimum that our workers require and that is why they can always beat domestic manufactures on price. Neither candidate seems to have a solution for this problem. It is our huge trade deficit that is degrading efforts to revive the economy by injecting more money.
In many states, state colleges and universities are having to raise tuition to make ends meet because of tighter state budgets. The President wants to withdrew federal funding from these schools so that they either have to raise tuition even more or close down facilities. The President thinks that this effort will help improve the quality of education in America.
The President is expecting to pass his increased taxes on the "Rich". He has been trying to do that for the past four years but he somehow thinks the can prevail in the next 4 years. This tax will at best take 100 billion dollars per year from the private sector and put it into the public sector. The President promised that the 2012 federal deficit would not exceed 229.27 billion dollars yet the actual deficit exceeded 1.1 trillion dollars so his efforts to date to cut the deficit have been less than successful. He is proposing more spending and unspecified cuts and which has been provided it is impossible that any actually deficit reduction will take place. So I am looking at a nominal annual deficit of 1 trillion dollars assuming the increased taxes on the "rich" passes.
At the heart of the President's plan is the idea of bringing the troops home in 2014 and with the savings use half of it to start paying down our debt and use the other half for infrastructure improvements. To start paying down the debt the federal government has to run a surplus. To run a surplus with half of the piece dividend, the federal government will have to realize a savings of more than 2 trillion dollars per year from bringing the troops home. That amount is more than twice a s much as we are paying for defense including all overseas operations. The President's plan is mathematically impossible. Mathematically impossible plans are at the least less than viable. The President's plan is an example of fantasy economics.
My biggest concern is all the debt that our federal government has been accumulating. With a debt or more than 16 trillion dollars and huge deficits predicted for at least another decade, I estimate that the money that the federal government is borrowing today will end up costing the tax payers more than 10 times the amount borrowed to repay over the next 180 years. Paying 10 times the going rate for goods and services is not good management. The President has yet to present a detailed plan for repaying the debt. The tax payers have a right to know how much all of this federal borrowing to going to end up costing them.
The main issue here is not that Romney consistently lies about his genuine beliefs, record, and facts in general. The issue is him getting away with it and being head-to-head with Obama in the polls. This is a reflection of a broken citizenry that is too ignorant to vote in its best interest and/or subscribes to some narrow ideology that results in them embracing some person who is not good for the country but agrees on one to a few issues out of many. It is like when the Republicans refused to even seriously debate much less pass any of the economic legislation President Obama endorsed and then accused him of being partisan and the obstructionist. It is absurd and they get away with this naked hypocrisy because the American people don't seem to actually care about the truth or determining what the facts are prior to voting.
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If Chrysler says they are not planning to build jeeps in China then the add is essentially false. The truth should matter.
The left is more concerned about lies about Chrysler yet doesn't give a hoot about the lies about Benghazi? Amazing, truely amazing.
You already said that. There are still no "lies".
Republicans: Before you even ask what source. The Washington Post who did fact checks on Romney.
Fact Check: Romney says $716B cut to medicare that hurts current seniors. Actual facts: The savings mostly are wrung from health-care providers, not Medicare beneficiaries — who, as a result of the health-care law, ended up with new benefits for preventive care and prescription drugs.
Fact Check: Romney says 20M people could lose their employer based health coverage. Actual facts are there will be 3M people added to their employer based health coverage.
Fact Check: Romney says taxes on middle class will go up $4000. Actual facts Romneys budget will land middle class in the same place if not worse.
Fact check: Romney says debt will go from 16T to 20T in four years. Actual facts Paul Ryan budget plan will increase debt from 16T to 19T in four years.
Fact Check: Romney says gas price will continue to go up. Actual facts But this is a misleading comparison because cost of gas had plunged to an artificially low level at the start of Obama’s presidency because of the Great Recession.
What was the price of gas the week of Sept. 15, 2008, before the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggered the economic crisis? It was $3.84 — virtually the same price as today, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Three months later, the price of gasoline had plunged to half that level.
It's like I've said all along. Everything Romney says about Obama is true. Everything Obama says about Romney is true. It's what they say about themselves you can't believe.
The Italians don't deny they are going to build Jeeps in China. They say they are creating new capacity to build vehicles for the Chinese market. If those vehicles are Jeeps, those are Jeeps that will not be built in Ohio.
It's more cost effective to build them in China for sale in China. The additional cost of building them in the US and shipping them to China would price them out of the market.
I am sick and tired of people quoting that welfare spending is up, food stamps spending is up, more women in poverty. Guess what, we have been going through a recession. The last one was back in the 1930's. There is no presidence over how this affects the Americans in this day. More people out of work means more people on welfare and food stamps. Who put us here, the Republicans did. What would you prefer, everyone going hungry, families living on the streets. Just because the deficit is up does not mean these families have to suffer.
My vote is for Obama. Why not just go to the Washington Post and do the fact checkers. You will see all the lies that is coming out of Romneys mouth each and every day. The people who believe this stuff coming from Romney are just ill-informed americans. Do the fact checker. everything Romney says about the economy are lies. Romney says he will create 12M jobs by 2016, guess what any President can do that, check the facts, Romney gets 4 out 4 Pinocchios for that one.
Romney's grandchildren are going to be so proud of him when they grow up and read the actual facts. (not!)
Oh well, at least his new homophobic ad, launched this morning, will help his cause. -> puppetshed.com